To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Fetishism 7, Followers. Stanford University Press. In his preface to the German edition of Das Kapital, Karl Marx famously warned that things like value, capital, profit, rent, and tax cannot be discovered with the aid of a microscope and chemical analysis, hinting to the distinct In his preface to the German edition of Das Kapital, Karl Marx famously warned that things like value, capital, profit, rent, and tax cannot be discovered with the aid of a microscope and chemical analysis, hinting to the distinct socionatural logics that underpin the production of different kinds of knowledges and conceptual abstractions.
This desert is an ideal social laboratory of sorts. These debates address the multiplicity of socio-natural worlds relational vs. A profound ambivalence exists between development studies and the Development Story consensus based development by means of techno-managerial change.
This is evidenced by the prevalence of academics that know that the Development Story This is evidenced by the prevalence of academics that know that the Development Story is a myth, while carrying on acting as if they belief in it through our seemingly cynical participation in the objective beliefs and rituals of the ideological apparatus of development. When this practice is brought to one's attention, the response is often "yes, but…", which further highlights the contradiction between what we know and what we do in development studies.
How this ambivalence is managed by a mix of repression and fetishistic disavowal becomes even more pronounced when it comes to the latest iteration of the Development Story: sustainable development and the sustainable development goals.
This status conveys most of all in the specific location that messianism assumes with regard to religion. Agamben himself, as well as Considering this concept, fetishist disavowal appears rather as an operation that holds the subject within metaphysics and interpretation at the point in which the subject may encounter its limit, represented exactly by the primal repression, which marks the moment of incompleteness or non-totalisability of interpretation as such.
